RE: [school-discuss] On-line quizzes...

["Schmitt, Mark" <MSchmitt@dcds.edu>]

Jeff,

I currently use a program called WeBWorK for on-line homework and quizzes.
The homepage for the project is http://webwork.math.rochester.edu In my high
school, it is used mainly for homework, but I helped install it at a local
university as a secure computer-based testing system for a large lecture
geology course.

I know that a professor at Ohio State University has written an interface
with Moodle (an open source Course Management System), which he uses to do
quizzes.  

The big downside to WeBWorK is that problems (questions) are coded in perl,
so for complicated situations, knowledge of perl is required.  The good news
is that for straightforward T/F, multiple choice, matching and
fill-in-the-blank style questions, I have a web-based script to generate the
problem code.  If you would like help setting things up, feel free to let me
know.


Mark Schmitt
Detroit Country Day School

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Elkner [mailto:jeff@elkner.net]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 7:08 AM
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
Subject: [school-discuss] On-line quizzes...


I need to make a decision fairly soon about how best to prepare on-line
quizzes and tests for next year's AP Computer Science curriculum.  Our
school system has purchased Blackboard.com software, which works very
well for what I want to do but is not free and would make it difficult
to share with folks outside our school system.

What I would *really* like to do is use Zope, but I don't know of a
product that can do the kinds of things I need.  Specifically, I need:

1. Presentation of quiz/test questions:
  a. multiple choice
  b. matching
  c. fill in the blank

2. Automatic grading of quiz/test.

There are other requirements as well, such as user authentication and
such, but I already know how to do that in Zope.

I'm asking this list because the availability of such a tool would be a
big help to our effort, so before I use a proprietary solution I wanted
to check in here.

Thanks!

-- 
Jeffrey Elkner <jeff@elkner.net>
Open Book Project <http://ibiblio.org/obp>